. William H. Seward's travels around the world. u have ?), there is not a tree nora plant, except where, here and there, is a patch which mans handhas planted, scarcely bigger than that hand, and which he continuesto water daily. The Portuguese discoverers stopped here on theirvoyages of exploration. They found here, as at Socotra, a colonyof Syrian Christians. The Mohammedans from Mecca invadedthem with fire and sword. They invoked relief and protectionfrom the Portuguese Indian capital at Goa. The Portuguese in-tervention proved ineffectual, and the promontory remained undernative Arabian sw
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. u have ?), there is not a tree nora plant, except where, here and there, is a patch which mans handhas planted, scarcely bigger than that hand, and which he continuesto water daily. The Portuguese discoverers stopped here on theirvoyages of exploration. They found here, as at Socotra, a colonyof Syrian Christians. The Mohammedans from Mecca invadedthem with fire and sword. They invoked relief and protectionfrom the Portuguese Indian capital at Goa. The Portuguese in-tervention proved ineffectual, and the promontory remained undernative Arabian sway, and ultimately came to be a province of Mus-cat. The kings of Muscat lost it, as they lost every thing, and thepromontory remained under the control of native chiefs. TheBritish Government early saw its importance to their Indian do- ADEN. 471 minions, but awaited an opportunity. In 1839, under the pretextof redressing an insult, Great Britain, with sword in one hand, anda liberal purse in the other, seized the promontory and fortified It is now used as a coaling-station in the European voyages toIndia, whether they are made around the Cape of Good Hope, orthrough the Red Sea. Aden commands the latter navigation, andin this sense is the key to India and the whole East, as Singa-pore is the key to China, Japan, the Archipelago, and is politically dependent, not directly on the Home Govern-ment, but on the presidency of Bombay, and is held and main-tained at the cost of the government of British India. Wise old England! How she fortifies her Island Realm, andyet all the while develops and improves the energies of her people,while she does not hesitate to undertake the police regulation of the 472 BRITISH INDIA. world! She knows, moreover, when and where and how to estab-lish the necessary police-stations. If jealous of the United States,what could she desire more than that they shall be content withcomplaining of the Alabama grievances, hesitate at taking
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